Boundary Controllability and Observability of a One-Dimensional Nonuniform SCOLE System.

A hybrid system, composed of an elastic beam governed by an Euler-Bernoulli beam equation with variable coefficients and a linked rigid body governed by an ordinary differential equation, is considered. Various controllability/observability properties of the system under boundary control/observation are studied. It is shown that an open-loop smooth/singular controller of either torque control or force control is sufficient to make the system exactly controllable in arbitrarily short time duration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]